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Hudson Bay basin

Coverage:
Waters flowing into Hudson Bay.
Explicit inclusions:
Dubawnt River (entries are listed also in NT, as appropriate), Ferguson River, Kazan River, Maguse River, Quoich River, Tha-Anne River, Thelon River (entries are listed also in NT, as appropriate), Thlewiaza River (entries are listed also in MB, as appropriate.

Dubawnt River. Information. Grinnell, George James. A Death on the Barrens; a true story. Northern Books, Toronto (1996). The second edition was published by Heron Dance Press in 2006. Stony Rapids, Chipman Portage, Bompas Lake, Selwyn Lake, Wholdaia Lake, then the Dubawnt River to Baker Lake. Ed notes:
1. I haven’t heard of a party starting on the Dubawnt proper above Wholdaia Lake, which is well below the Dubawnt’s source.
2. The headwaters of the Dubawnt lie in the Northwest Territories. The river crosses into Nunavut at the west end of Dubawnt Lake.
3. When appropriate, Dubawnt reports are listed in both the Northwest Territories and Nunavut Routes folders. Luste, George. A Memory of the North. The Beaver, Summer 1971, pp 48-52. Photos with text.

Dubawnt River to Kazan River. Connector. Notes.
The route joining the two river systems passes through Nowleye Lake, with Kamilukuak Lake on the Dubawnt side and Angikuni Lake on the Kazan side.
Like Wollaston Lake, Nowleye Lake has two exits, here a river to Angikuni and a small stream to Kamilukuak; that is, Nowleye Lake is the height-of-land between the two river systems.
The river from Nowleye to Angikuni has been paddled by several parties; it is not however the Nowleye River, which flows into Nowleye Lake from the south.
The small stream flowing from Nowleye to Kamilukuak is clearly shown on Google Earth and has been ground-truthed by David Demello; it is not however shown at Toporama, nor I gather on topos. It usually lacks enough water to be paddled and all known parties have portaged. There is however the possibility that it could be lined/tracked. [Source: Private message from David Demello].
The crossing has been made by Bill Layman's party and David Demello's, and it was scouted by John McKay's.
Thanks to David Demello for much of the above.

Kazan River. Information. Canadian Heritage Rivers System.http://www.chrs.ca/Rivers/Kazan/Kazan_e.htm
Ed note: Except for a few km downstream from Kasba Lake, the Kazan lies entirely within Nunavut and so Kazan reports are filed under Nunavut only. Parks Canada.Fall Caribou Crossing National Historic Site. Government of Canada; Canadian Heritage - Parks Canada; National Historic Sites; New Parks North; March 1998. http://www.newparksnorth.org/fall.htmKazan Heritage River. Ed note: Link gven for completeness only. http://www.nunavutparks.com ; Bertulli, Margaret (Editor and compiler). Archaeological Field Work in the Northwest Territories, Canada in 1997. Archaeology Report No. 19.[/color] Includes work on the Harvaqtuuq Historic Site, Kazan River. http://www.pwnhc.ca/research/archrep/ar ... hrep97.htmCoffin, Stewart. Kazan River, Northwest Territories, Canada. 1966, with John Lentz, William Markus and Norman Wright. Unpublished. Ferguson, Robert Munro. Unpublished, handwritten diary in the Tyrrell archive of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. Source: Heather Robertson, Measuring Mother Earth: How Joe the Kid Became Tyrrell of the North. McClelland and Stewart, Toronto (2007).
Ed notes:
1. I have not read the manuscript.
2. Ferguson was part of J B Tyrrell's 1894 expedition, part of which travelled the Kazan River from Kasba Lake to below Yathkyed Lake, then portaged to the Ferguson River and so on to Hudson Bay. Harper, Francis. Caribou Eskimos of the Upper Kazan River, Keewatin. University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History; Allen Press, Lawrence (1964).
Biography of Francis Harper: http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic53-1-72.pdfKeith, Darren. Inuit Place Names and Land-use History on the Harvaqtuuq (Kazan River), Nunavut Territory. MA thesis in Geography, McGill University (2000). Available to academic users from http://proquest.umi.com/loginLentz, John W. Inuit Ku: The River of Men. The Beaver, Spring 1968, pp 4-11. Mallet, Thierry. Exploring the Kazan. The Beaver, March 1950, pp 22-25. Martin, John. Reindeer Lake to Baker Lake: Eight hundred miles by canoe via the Cochrane, Little Partridge and Kazan Rivers; June 26 to August 14, 1974. With John Blackborow, Mike Good and George Luste. Unpublished. McCreadie, Mary. Canoeing Canada’s Northwest Territories: A Paddler’s Guide. Canadian Recreational Canoeing Association, Merrickville (1995). McKay, John W. Arctic Adventure: A Kazan River Journal. 1982, with Tony Louwman, Mike Whittier, Nancy Scott, Oscar von Dungern, Genevieve Ombredane, Charles Altschul and David Pelly. Contains some notes from the water resources cabin above Kazan Falls. Betelgeuse Books, Toronto (1983). Pelly, David F and Christopher C Hanks. The Kazan: Journey into an Emerging Land. Outcrop, Yellowknife (1991). Operation Raleigh, 1988. Spragins-Harmuth, Anne B. Travelling the Kazan. Nastawgan, Summer 1999, pp 20-31. With Henning Harmuth. Beautifully written, the most thoughtful and the most informative of all the reports, an absolute pleasure to read, top of the class. But it is followed by the Editor's Comment, well you'll see. We found some rapids and portages not as difficult as described though. Stewart, Andrew McLean. PhD thesis Caribou Inuit Settlement Response ... .University of California at Santa Barbara, 1993.
Ed notes:
1. Kazan-specific but of general interest.
2. Available to academic users from http://proquest.umi.com/login
3. Stewart was a member of Operation Raleigh, 1988. Stewart, A; T M Friesen, D Keith and L Henderson. Archaeology and Oral History of Inuit Land Use on the Kazan River, Nunavut: A Feature-based Approach. Arctic, v. 53, No. 3, September 2000, pp 260-278. http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic53-3-260.pdf , but 15.36 MB. Tyrrell, Joseph Burr and George J Luste. Eskimos of the Kazan. The Beaver, Spring 1975, pp 40-46. Luste has reproduced the relevant portion of Tyrrell’s account of his 1894 expedition and supplemented it with photos from the latter’s 1974 canoe trip. Thanks to Clayton Klein's Cold Summer Wind.van den Steenhoven, Geert. Ennadai Lake People 1955. The Beaver, Spring 1968, pp 12-18.
Ed note: Kazan-specific but of general interest. Webster, Deborah Kigjugalik. Harvaqtuurmiut Heritage: The Heritage of the Inuit of the Lower Kazan River.
Ed note: Kazan-specific but of general interest.

Kazan River. Features.
To be prepared.

Kazan River to Dubawnt River. Connector. Notes.
Consult the entry Dubawnt River to Kazan River. Connector.

Kognak River. Information.
The Kognak, a tributary of the Tha-anne, is paddled primarily as a connecting route between the Thlewiaza and the Tha-anne.
Information sources:
1. Entry Tha-anne River; Thlewiaza River to Hudson Bay. Author: paddlenorth.
2. David DeMello's notes, posted by Jay Neilson at http://jneilson.freehostia.com/Tha-anne%20Nunavut.htm

Kunwak River. Information.
The Kunwak is a tributary of the Kazan, entering it near the west end of Thirty Mile Lake.
Access:
1. from Princess Mary Lake (float-plane access), and
2. by portage from Angikuni Lake on the Kazan.
Egress:
After reaching Thirty Mile Lake, most parties continue down the Kazan to Baker Lake.

Meadowbank River. Information.
Ed notes:
1. The Meadowbank is rarely if ever paddled in its own right, but rather as a connecting route between the Back River and the Thelon River, both ways.
2. The trip upstream on the Meadowbank (from the Back) is reputed to be a tough slog [George Luste, private communication.]

Thelon River. Information. Canadian Heritage Rivers System.http://www.chrs.ca/Rivers/Thelon/Thelon_e.htmThelon River; Wikipedia.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelon_RiverThelon Game Sanctuary, Wikipedia.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelon_Wildlife_SanctuaryCommon access points.
Whitefish Lake, Lynx Lake, Jim Lake (10-15 km below the Elk River confluence), Eyeberry Lake, Warden's Grove; the Thelon is accessed also from the Hanbury, Clarke, Elk, Mary Frances and Radford Rivers. Common exit points.
Thelon Bluffs, just above Beverly Lake, at the west end of Beverly, Baker Lake settlement (scheduled flight). The Thelon canyon.
Some parties portage on river left (as we did), others on river right. I read one report of a party that was able to line it on river left; doing so could well be dangerous though. Cross listing.
When appropriate, I'll try to list Thelon reports in both the NT and NU stickys. Better check the NT entries anyway. Christian, Edgar. Death in the Barren Ground. Edited by George Whalley. Oberon Press, Ottawa (1980). Includes letters consciously omitted from earlier versions. Hoare, W H B. Journal of a Barrenlander. MOM Printing, Ottawa (1990). Largely Thelon-specific but of general interest. Klein, Clayton. Cold Summer Wind. Wilderness Adventure Books, Lansing (1985).McCreadie, Mary. Canoeing Canada’s Northwest Territories: A Paddler’s Guide. Canadian Recreational Canoeing Association, Merrickville (1995). Norment, Chris. In the North of Our Lives. Down East Books, Camden (1989). Pelly, David F. Thelon: A River Sanctuary. Canadian Recreational Canoeing Association, Merrickville (1996). Powell-Williams, Clive. Cold Burial: A True Story of Endurance and Disaster. St Martins Press, New York (2002). The deaths at Hornby’s cabin on the Thelon. Reviewed by Michael Peake in Che-Mun, Outfit 111, Winter 2003, page 8. http://www.ottertooth.com/che-mun/111/111-1.htmRossbach, George B. By Canoe Down the Thelon River. The Beaver, Autumn 1966, pp 4-13. Float plane from Yellowknife to the Hanbury-Thelon junction, continuation to Baker Lake. Thanks to Clayton Klein, Cold Summer Wind.